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Leading Better Care - Delivering for Patients

Leading Better Care enables Senior Charge Nurses / Midwives and Team Leaders to deliver better care in consistent, measurable, evidence based way

To achieve this vision, the following aims and objectives have been agreed:

LBC Aims

  • All Senior Charge Nurses, Senior Charge Midwives and Team Leaders will be working in the context of the LBC components:
  • To ensure safe and effective clinical practice
  • To enhance the patients experience
  • To manage and develop the performance of the team
  • To ensure effective contribution to the delivery of the organisations objectives

by March 2013 and able to demonstrate this.

  • Nurses & Midwives will be able to demonstrate  the contribution they make to the quality and experience of care that patients receive under the three themes by March 2013:
  • Safe
  • Effective
  • Person centred

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Evidence into Practice is undergoing some changes. This is due to the development of the new Quality Improvement Hub website.

For now, all the content is still available and accessible from here, however the Quality Improvement content will be migrated to the new Quality Improvement Hub site. You can still access this content from the links on this page or go directly to the site.

If you would like any more information regarding these changes, please contact us.

  • Point of Care Resources

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    • UpToDate
    • Dynamed
    • Nursing Reference Center
    • Rehabilitation Reference Center
    • Joanna Briggs Institute [Proquest]
    • NHS Inform
    • Prodigy
  • Medicines Information

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    • BNF
    • BNF for Children
    • Micromedex (Martindale, DrugDex, Reprorisk, IV Index)
    • Stockleys
  • Got a clinical question?

    Try CLEAR - the online clinical enquiry and response service from NHS QIS and NES.

  • Institute of Medicine's 6 Dimensions of Quality

    • Effective
    • Efficient
    • Safe
    • Timely
    • Person Centred
    • Equitable
    • QualityLink

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    Model derived from the Institute of Medicine's 6 Dimensions of Quality (http://www.iom.edu)

  • Implementation and Improvement

    • Improvement

      • Continuous Improvement in Healthcare
      • Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Improvement Methods
      • Lean
      • NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
      • NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub
      • The Model for Improvement
    • Clinical Topics for Safety and Effectiveness

      • Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection
      • Central Venous Catheter Related Infection
      • Clostridium difficile Infection
      • Depression
      • Hip Fracture
      • Leg Ulcers
      • Stroke
      • Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
  • Guidelines

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    • Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
    • National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
    • Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme
    More quicklinks
  • Systematic Reviews

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    • The Cochrane Library
    • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Evidence Summaries

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    • Dynamed plus Nursing Reference Center & Rehab Reference Center
    • UpToDate
    • Healthcare Improvement Scotland
    • Prodigy
    • JBI (ProQuest)
    • Bandolier
    • WHO/Europe Health Evidence Network
    • Evidence Based Mental Health
    • Evidence Based Medicine
    • Evidence Based Nursing
    • TRIP
    More quicklinks
  • Summaries of Primary Research

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    • OTseeker: Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence
    • PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database
    • Quality and Safety in Healthcare
    • Current Controlled Clinical Trials Register
    More quicklinks
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